[ATTN: Devs]Poor performance due to single threaded nature of the game?

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I decided to take a look at how much CPU utilization this game uses and I was amazed to see it's only pegging 1 out of 6 CPUs. 80-90% usage on one CPU, about 20% on another, and the rest stay relatively idle. This would most likely be a major cause for slowdowns on larger maps, or when your game has dragged on for some time.

 

Anyone else seeing this? Maybe someone with an Intel CPU could check to see what their CPU utilization is during the game.

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

All I know is about turn 200 the game slows to an unplayable crawl. End turns lag, takes forever for units to move, scrolling the map is choppy and my system is shiny nice too.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I am having the same issue.  I spend more time waiting on the game to stop lagging then playing.  I have 4gb mem, windows 7 x64, quad core(amd 955 black).  This game should be running smmmooooooooth, even with all settings turned all the way up.  I also have constant crashes all over the place.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Issue is already being discussed here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/391334